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Paul Daugherty
Paul Daugherty has been an Enquirer sports columnist since 1994 and has been chronicling Cincinnati sports since 1988. He has covered almost every major sporting event in America, as well as five Summer Olympics. Along the way, he has been named one of the country's top-5 sports columnists four times, and Ohio columnist of the year on seven different occasions. Last year, he was voted 2nd-best sports columnist in the country, by the Associated Press Sports Editors.

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Thursday, March 30, 2006

no gatoring allowed

Let's see if we have this straight: The NFL has decreed that Chad Johnson can still celebrate, as long as he's upright. He can still dance, but he can't putt with the pylon. He can't give CPR to the football or propose to a cheerleader, unless he can do it standing up. He can Riverdance, to a point, but if he does it too long, that's a penalty. Will the referees now wear stopwatches? Will they put it to replay? Can the NFL acquire a sense of humor for a commisioner to be named later?
Only the NFL could take something amusing and subject it to so many guidelines it seems like a government regulation. How the competition committee and the owners could look at what Johnson does and see "taunting'' is beyond me. Of course, this is the same league that fined Johnson a total of $70,000 a few years ago, for not pulling up his socks...
I don't mean to sound insensitive, but is it possible, now, to cease with the Huggins farewells? Wasn't he roasted, I don't know, several years and two coaches ago? Please tell me his story won't be like Pete Rose's. Twenty years from now, I don't want to be hearing how he shouldn't have been mutually agreed upon terminated. The rumor is, UC will have basketball again nextb year, and quite possibly for years to come. Live big


10 Comments:

at 8:50 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah, enough with Huggins. No dignity, no class, no self-awareness. Good riddance.

 
at 9:40 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah, I agree with the above writer. I hope he dies of a heart attack. He did nothing for the city but embarrass it. We should never have hired him. He is one of the worst coaches in college basketball and hates all the kids he coaches. The hell with him and his whole family.

 
at 10:05 AM Blogger Greg said...

I don't hope he dies, but I think last night's event was a little over the top. It would have been great if it could have been about Andy, he was a class act, all the way.

 
at 10:27 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

If Huuggins does get Bennett,Beasley,Mayo and Walker everybody will be talking about him.
The guy we should all be talking about is Devan Downey.He is as good a point guard at his age as anybody.I like him better than Greg Paulus as a true point guard.How did we ever get him out of Chester(SC)?

 
at 5:32 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Huggins Derangement Syndrome ["HDS"] continues to affect thousands of Cincinnatians.

Symptoms of HDS include denial of reality, a tendency to see things in hues of purple, a propensity for cheap beer, puking on expensive foreign cars, excessive flop sweating, and the complete inability to accept change.

If you know someone with HDS, approach with caution. The world that they live in is not our own. The symptoms of HDS may be treated with medication - like Herpes or Hepatitis B. Sadly, HDS itself is likely never to be eliminated.

(c) Hamilton County Board of Health, 2006.

 
at 1:22 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Reading some of these responses makes me think even more that I am the smartest person in Cincinnati.

 
at 2:14 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

No, Ken, what you are is a tool. A rather blunt tool. Maybe you ought to follow your idol Chuggins out to the cornfields of Kansas. They can always use another tool amongst the farms of middle-of-nowhereville, USA.

 
at 2:44 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Angry Ken,


I'm sure you're a smart guy, but what is more likely is that some of the stupidest people in Cincinnati made the posts before you and the one after you.

 
at 5:00 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Chuggins is a disgrace and a chronic drinker. Alcohol sales have fallen by 10% since his tired act finally left town.

 
at 5:54 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

We're just glad he doesn't drive his puke-covered Lexus through our village anymore.

 
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